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- From: "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
- Subject: Re: helos vs tanks
- Message-ID: <C0171K.35r@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:24:56 GMT
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- From "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
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- Robert I. Eachus writes:
- # I'll check the effective range on the 90 mm cannister, but I seem
- #to remember 1200 yards published, and about that in real use. The
- #projectiles were not steel balls but steel rods cut into about one
- #inch lengths, and the spin from the shell stabilized them.
- #
- # Maybe that's why there is no 120 mm cannister! The projectiles
- #could not be spin stabilized.
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- "Canister" is a bit more generic than you realize. It refers to a
- projectile which breaks up into or produces large numbers of antipersonnel
- subprojectiles upon muzzle exit. The subprojectiles are most typically
- steel balls, but they can be steel rods/cylinders as in the 90mm M336
- cartridge described above (max effective range 200 yds). They can even be
- flechettes, as in the 90mm M377 (Caution! Flechette does NOT always
- mean "Beehive". If the projectile functions at the muzzle without fuzing
- it's a flechette canister round; if it has a time fuze alowing muzzle
- action function as well as function at a distance from the weapon it's
- "Beehive"). What makes it "canister" is that it works by distributing
- a pattern of subprojectiles intended for close-in antipersonnel work.
-
- There is no 120mm canister because the user wants a two round (+ STAFF)
- solution: KE for heavy armor and HEAT-MP for everything else.
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- Ed Rudnicki erudnick@pica.army.mil All disclaimers apply
- "War must be looked upon as a business, and subject, like any other business,
- to business principles. War is the business of destruction of life and
- property of an enemy.....The most deadly and destructive implements of war
- are the most humane, and the producers of them may justly be looked upon as
- humanitarians." ----- Hudson Maxim (the other Maxim)
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